On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 08:08:31AM +0800, Jimmy Pan wrote:
There is a 3.0 in my hard disk, which I downloaded around Aug 10. There is 3.0.4 and 3.1-rc4 code. Which version should I use. Since I am a newbie, I think I don't need to use the newest version. Can I use my 3.0 version, or should I download a new one?
A lot of people use Git[0] to download and manage their kernel source code, but you can also use the latest mainline (2.6.39, 3.0, ...) or -rc release, if you like. To get the kernel source via git, run this (it'll take a while, because it downloads around 200 megabytes): git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
Maybe I can read the kernel source on the web, is there a way to use the source on web to make patches?
You can read the linux source code on the web[1,2], but you sure need it on your own computer, if you're going to change things.
Thanks in advance.
Well, thanks for this polite and informed post. :-) [0] http://git-scm.com/ [1] http://lxr.linux.no/linux [2] http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git;a=tree Greetings, Jonathan Neuschäfer